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America , now in its twenty-fifth year, has sold more 1.2 million copies over the past seven editions and remains the most affordable history text on the market. The narrative wins students over with compelling storytelling, colorful anecdotes and biographical sketches that make the material more memorable. The text includes helpful in-text study aids, and a host of electronic media resources to help teachers teach and students learn.

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A New World

The Collision of Cultures

Pre-Columbian Indian Civilizations

European Visions Of America

The Expansion Of Europe

The Voyages Of Columbus

The Great Biological Exchange

Professional Explorers

The Spanish Empire

The Protestant Reformation

Challenges To The Spanish Empire

Britain and Its Colonies

The English Background

Settling The Chesapeake

Settling New England

Indians In New England

The English Civil War In America

Settling The Carolinas

Settling The Middle Colonies And Georgia

Thriving Colonies

Colonial Ways of Life

The Shape Of Early America

Society And Economy In The Southern Colonies

Society And Economy In New England

Society And Economy In The Middle Colonies

Colonial Cities

The Enlightenment

The Great Awakening

The Imperial Perspective

English Administration Of The Colonies

The Habit Of Self-Government

Troubled Neighbors

The Colonial Wars

From Empire to Independence

The Heritage Of War

British Politics

Western Lands

Grenville And The Stamp Act

Fanning The Flames

Discontent On The Frontier

A Worsening Crisis

Shifting Authority

Independence

Building A Nation

The American Revolution

1776: Washington's Narrow Escape

American Society At War

1777: Setbacks For The British

1778: Both Sides Regroup

The War In The South

Negotiations

The Political Revolution

The Social Revolution

The Emergence Of An American Culture

Shaping A Federal Union

The Confederation

Adopting The Constitution

The Federalist ERA

A New Nation

Hamilton's Vision

The Republican Alternative

Crises Foreign And Domestic

Settlement Of New Land

Transfer Of Power

The Adams Years

The Early Republic

Jeffersonian Simplicity

Jefferson In Office

Divisions In The Republican Party

War In Europe

The War Of 1812

An Expansive Nation

Nationalism and Sectionalism

Economic Nationalism

"Good Feelings"

Crises And Compromises

Judicial Nationalism

Nationalist Diplomacy

One-Party Politics

The Jacksonian Impulse

Setting The Stage

Nullification

Jackson's Indian Policy

The Bank Controversy

Contentious Politics

Van Buren And The New Party System

Assessing The Jackson Years

The Dynamics of Growth

Agriculture And The National Economy

Transportation And The Market Revolution

A Communications Revolution

The Industrial Revolution

The Popular Culture

Immigration

Organized Labor

The Rise Of The Professions

Jacksonian Inequality

An American Renaissance: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform

Rational Religion

The Second Great Awakening

Romanticism In America

The Flowering Of American Literature

Education

Antebellum Reform

Manifest Destiny

The Tyler Years

The Western Frontier

Moving West

Annexing Texas

Polk's Presidency

The Mexican War

A House Divided and Rebuilt

The Old South

The Distinctiveness Of The Old South

White Society In The South

Black Society In The South

The Culture Of The Southern Frontier

Anti-Slavery Movements

The Crisis of Union

Slavery In The Territories

The Compromise Of 1850

Foreign Adventures

The Kansas-Nebraska Crisis

The Deepening Sectional Crisis

The Center Comes Apart

The War of The Union

The End Of The Waiting Game

The Balance Of Force

The War's Early Course

Emancipation

The War Behind The Lines

Government During The War

The Faltering Confederacy

The Confederacy's Defeat

A Modern War

Reconstruction: North and South

The War's Aftermath

The Battle Over Reconstruction

Reconstructing The South

The Reconstructed South

The Grant Years

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